While insects, birds, amphibians and whales were singing long before man evolved, early humans also used music as a means of commu-nication and as an important component of their rituals. And though we've since dispersed across the globe and developed hundreds of unique languages, music continues to tie us together. Regardless of our culture, music has a way of touching our collective human soul, evoking similar emotions in all of us.
Of course, we all have our favorite forms of melody and percussion but it is the rare human who doesn't enjoy some type of music. I, for one, can't get through the day without a few periods of musical relaxation, one of my favorite means of stress reduction. For our human family as a whole, music will remain the universal language, spawning hope that our many artificial barriers may someday disappear.
